Appreciate his input agree on a follow-up meeting.ĥpm: Create 2 new slides summarizing the key meeting takeaways.Ħpm: 20min taxi ride back to your firm’s local office.
Run him through the project scope and timeline. Discuss how to implement the client feedback and start executing immediately.ġpm: Since your meeting schedule allows it today, go get a quick 30min lunch break at the canteen.Ģpm: Tick off important items off your to do list and refresh the team room flipchart.ģpm: Check and then integrate the new slides that you got back your back-office graphics team into your latest deck for the problem solving session with your Partner.Ĥ–5pm: Take an executive up in his a meeting request. If needed use the idle time to make some final edits to your latest PowerPoint deck that you’ll discuss with the client at 10:00am.ĩ:30am: Arrive at the client’s site and settle into your team room.ġ0am: Update session with your three key client contactsġ1am: Time for a ‘check-in’ with your project lead. Find your seat on the plane and finalize some work on your laptop while the other passengers are boarding the plane.Ĩ:30am: Touchdown: Turn on your work phone, store your laptop and the noise cancelling headphones.ĩam: 30min taxi ride to the client site. While there’s no standard week I though I might give you a quick run-down of an “average-busy” week before the pandemic struck.ĩpm: Pack your suitcase and pre-order a taxi for your drive to the airport for the next morning.ġ0pm: 7hrs to go until your alarm rings! Hopefully you didn’t party too hard on Saturday, because if you did then good luck falling asleep.ĥ:30am: Take the taxi to the airport and check and respond to emails.ħam: Luck you! You have priority boarding. You’ll need to always be available to last minute client requests. This means your schedule will be quite packed and unpredictable. Your primary goal as a management consultant is to do great work, but in the end it is all about making your clients happy.
This is what your average week as a management consultant looks like Being constantly away from home means that you’ll have to cram almost all of your private “to dos” into your weekend. Also, in consulting there is almost no downtime, which means you’ll rarely able to go for a 30min coffee break, make important phone calls or run to the drugstore to buy that deodorant that you need. However, 70-80-hour-weeks spread over five days still translate into 14-16 hour days. So yes, in consulting you’ll most likely work fewer hours than in investment banking. Working hours in consulting have the benefit of: 1) protected weekends to recuperate, 2) very rare all-nighters (as long as you are not working on a due diligence with a mega-cap private equity fund) and 3) significantly more control over who you want to work with. If you're familiar with the hours in banking, you might think that MBB hours will be a walk in the park.
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